Next chapter! SCHA! So exciting, isn't it?! =] I'm so excited to be back in the swing of writing. Thanks a million times over for your reviews! They always make me smile and laugh and make me want to write even more and more and more! Shout out to Cry-of-the-unheard, SCHA! I love Jarritos, and lima-limon is my FAVORITE, in fact, Jarritos is my favorite soda EVAH! And haha Peruvia? Nice! That's almost as bad as when people ask me "Do you speak Indian?" Another shout out to Team Seth For Life, I'm glad you're over your writer's block, and your story makes me smile and laugh too, I love it. And Seth IS amayzing and one of my tied for first favorite characters. :D
Anywhoosles, time to get on with the story because I KNOW you are all DYING to find out why Jacob is being such an ASSHOLE and the whole shared dream thing, so I'll quit my blathering and continue with the plot!
Jacob was running as fast as he could out of Sam and Emily's shared house, the shock of having an erotic dream about a man, er uh well, boy, and Seth no less (!), on top of the shock of the discovery of having imprinted, and then the shock of having a dream that didn't involve him running through a dull colored, blurry forest in a constant search for something before being swallowed by blackness. But a wet dream? Seriously? Jacob wasn't a kid anymore, he didn't go hours on end with an everlasting erection, he very rarely had wet dreams as a kid and for the past year and a half, he hadn't had any at all. But all of a sudden? No, it wasn't all of a sudden, he had imprinted! But to a guy? When?! Is this why he had been feeling semi-aroused when he was near Seth recently? Was this why Seth had been acting so strange lately? Does this explain why his Dad had been giving him pitying looks and telling him to move on from Bella? Is this why, for the first time in two years, he was finally over Bella?
Jacob stopped running. I'm over Bella, he thought in shock. I'm over Bella! Is this what imprinting did to you: make your life stop revolving around a ever moving sun and push it to orbiting a steady point? I can't believe I'm finally over her...after all this time, after all this time! I don't even CARE about her deeply anymore! Oh my god...It felt so weird, only feeling strongly about one person, with a strong desire to protect them and to make their lives eas....WHOA WHOA WHOA! When did this start happening? Since when have I started caring about Seth? Jacob shook his head, as if to get the thought out of his mind. Jacob hit his head against a tree with great force, sending wood chips flying everywhere as he left a great indentation in the tree. Gah, okay, that kinda hurt...Jacob waited for the throbbing to stop, and sure enough, it quickly disappated. So, let me get the facts straight: Embry has imprinted on the class fag, I've imprinted on a kid who's like my younger brother, I'm over Bella, and the world is still turning....I think... Jacob looked around suspiciously, as if to check if the Earth was still rotating on its axis. Jacob sighed and rubbed his forehead, Let's take this piece by piece: Embry has imprinted on the class fag. Okay, not surprising, Embry has always been kind of gay with his fashionable hair and his designer clothes and his gay type of walk and....what the hell, whatever. Imprinting on males though...okayyyy, that throws out every theory Dad has, but Sam said it has happened before...It's in the legends? Gah...okay, now I'VE imprinted on a guy, specifically Seth. Ugh...uh...well, it happened. That's all I know. I have no idea how these bonds work, I have no idea what will happen to me. Next, I'm over Bella. When did this happen? When the dreams started? Yeah...that's right...when the dreams started...I just stopped....caring....I left her to Edward because I don't need that flaky ninny on my hands and what the fuck am I saying? I really don't care? After all the heartache, all the crying, all the murder plans, all the hate, all the bitching from Leah, ALL of it, I'm done? That's it? That's all it takes to fall out of love. Jacob snorted, but the irritating voice in his head told him he never was in love with Bella in the first place.
A familiar refrain broke from Jacob's pocket, Each morning I get up, I die a little, can barely stand on my feet... before Jacob's hand flew down into his pocket and wrenched out his cell phone. "Hello?"
"Jake, hey, Ryan just called me, something up?" A lilting voice from the phone said.
"Gah, sheez Sri, did she tell everyone?" Jacob moaned out.
"Nooo, just me. Hey Jake, how 'bout you drive down here and we'll talk? Okay?"
"....fine. But you're paying!"
"Fine by me. Love you Jakey."
"Love you too Sri, bye chicky."
"Bye."
Jacob snapped his phone shut and ran to his garage to grab his motorcycle to drive down to the Starbucks in Forks. Fifteen minutes and he was at the familiar little coffee shop. His favorite barista was facing away from him dancing to the Jay Sean playing while she got a coffee by some lust-crazed teenager from the way the kid watched her. He walked up behind the kid and stood in line. "Hey sweetheart..."
The kid suddenly looked up in sheer terror, but what else did Jake expect? He was a fit 6'6 and insanely muscular on top of that. Sri remained turned around but she looked over her shoulder as she danced, "Hey Jake-y bear!" She danced her way over to the counter again and handed the teenager his latte. "You come back again sometime, okay Paul? And don't worry," she looked over his head to give Jake a reproachful glare "he's not my boyfriend, or my brother. He's one of my sister's crazy friends." She leaned over the counter and kissed the boy on his cheek before waving him out of the store.
"God Sri, your dad actually let's you work dressed like that?" Jacob said with distaste in his voice.
The Indian girl rolled her eyes before smoothing her hands over her cropped black polo and her khaki booty shorts. "My dad isn't here this weekend, so he left Reina in charge and she doesn't care how I dress, as long as it brings in customers."
"And how old are you?"
Sri gave him a dirty look, "I'm fourteen Mister Snootypants, but I can dress however I want thank ya very much!"
Jake clicked her tongue, something he knew she hated, "I can't believe they let you skip two grades when you were in elementary school. If they saw you now, they'd send you back to freshman year!"
Sri laughed before jumping over the counter, "So...you and Seth are imprinted or whatever?" Sri and her sister were both adopted by a couple on the reserve when Sri was still an infant and Reina was seven. They had a younger sister, Claire, who was the toddler that Quil imprinted on. Sri guessed what was going on with the pack and got to be told everything.
"Yeah..." Jacob let out an irritated breath, "But that's not even the half of it."
"What else happened, babe?"
Jacob pulled Sri over to one of the booths in the shop and they both sat down. "Well, it's like this. You know how I've been having those dreams of trying to find someone?" She nodded and Jake continued. "Well today I had a different kind of dream."
"What type?"
"The...uh...uh..."
"The sex dream type?"
"Uh...yeah....so I, like, had this dream about Seth, and I'm not going to get into it...but I nearly came in my pants, and when I woke up, Seth was grinding on me, and he was sleeping too, and it was just...weird..."
Sri leaned closer to him, "Are you saying you had a wet dream about Seth and Seth was grinding on you? Sounds a bit perfect to me...What did you do then, Jake-y? Did you fuck him into the couch? Did you suck him off? Did you do other amusing things to him? Details Jake, details!"
"I think you're getting off on this, Sri..."
"Shut up Jake! I am not! I just want to know how far I can tease Seth later!"
"Uh,...well, we didn't really do anything...."
Sri leaned back, eyes wide, "Uh, Jake, what DID you do?!"
"Seth? Seth? SETH. SETH!" Jacob was shouting, shaking him roughly, "Get the fuck off of me!"
Seth jolted awake, all of the love and pleasant feeling gone, "...wha...?"
Jacob was yelling like a madman, "What the fuck were you doing? Grinding on me while I was unconcious? What type of perv are you!?!"
Seth felt like he had been slapped, what happened to all the love and care and tenderness in Jacob's voice?
"Gah! Ew! I think you kissed me too! Weren't you sleeping!? What the fuck were you dreaming anyways?!?"
Soon the whole pack ran into the room, startled by Jacob's shouting and came to find out what had happened.
"Seth's a fag like those two queer-o-sexuals over there!" Jacob barked out loudly.
Everyone stared at Jacob in shock, not understanding what had happened.
Ryan pushed her way through before getting to Seth, who Jake had pushed off of the couch, and helped him stand up. Jacob was shaking a few feet away from the couch, looking at Seth with venom in his eyes. "Jacob! You're a fucking moron! Don't you get it?!"
"Get WHAT exactly!?!"
"SETH IS YOUR FUCKING SOULMATE YOU BASTARD!!!! YOU'VE IMPRINTED ON EACH OTHER!!!"
Sri's mouth popped open in an O in utter disgusted shock. "Jake! How could you!?! My poor Seth-y baby!"
Jacob rested his elbows on the table as he held his head in his hands and groaned, "I know, I know! I was jsut freaked out!"
"Freaked out by what!? It's just a dream Jake! And it sounds like Seth had the same one too...gah you acted like such a bastard!"
"I dreamt that me and Seth..." Jacob shuddered, "What was I supposed to do!? I'm not gay!"
"And then you took it out on Embry and Jon!? Seriously? Just because they're gay for each other doesn't give you the right to make fun of them!"
"I didn't mean to..."
"And then you just ran out on them, Seth is probably in a catatonic state right now!!!"
"Look, I didn't do..."
"Oh my poor baby, fuck you Jacob Black!"
"Sri, I didn't...."
"Ohhhh yes you did Jacob! And so what if they're gay?! Or what if you're gay!? I mean seriously you hang out with Leah and Ryan all the time and they're both..." Sri's face darkened in color before she clamped her lips shut.
"They're both what?" Jacob asked as Sri shook her head back and forth quickly. "Damn you Sri! Just spit it out, dammit!"
"Lesbians!" Sri shouted at him. "Leah and Ryan are both lesbians!"
Jacob let out a sharp bark of laughter, "Now I know how Embry and Jon and Seth and I got like this now, it's contagious! They're damn, fucking homo-ness infected us all! Now it's going to infect everyone else. They both probably wanted their own little gay colony. Those good-for-nothing, damn dykes! I can't believe I actually had a crush on them before. God, now everyone is going to be gay. You're probably gay too! You probably joined them...God, their fucking contagious homo-ocity...Ow!"
Sri stared up at him with her eyes wide and her nostrils flared as Jacob slightly doubled over since she had just punched him in the stomach with a napkin holder. "Jacob fucking Black, I swear to God that if you ever, EVER display that kind of homophobic, heterosexist behavior near me again you are as good as DEAD, okay?" Jacob nodded, the pain in his stomach dulling into a throb. "Okay, okay, okay. Now, I honestly can't believe you. Firstly, homosexuality is NOT contagious, Leah and Ryan are gay for what I believe are biological reasons. You, Seth, Embry, and Jon are gay for what are apparent biological reasons. You can't live without each other, and you can't live without that....type.....of.....sex? Yeah, you can't live without it. Face it Jacob, you're gay." Sri let out an exasperated breath, "Next, Ryan and Leah didn't want their own 'gay colony,' they wanted to be together without interruption. That was corrupted by Ryan's...well that's none of your business. And lastly, no I'm not gay, but I AM bisexual, so get over your fucking self Jacob Black or get OUT."
Jacob looked at her in surprise, "And?"
"And you're an asshole! How could you!?!? To both the guys and me?! You. Are. Gay. Okay? End this fucking predjudiced ingnorance before I beat it out of you with a golf club!" Sri was shaking at this point and if Jacob hadn't known better, he could have sworn she was one of them.
"Okay, fine I'm gay, I don't agree but whatever...what about us maybe having shared a dream?"
Sri laughed, "Now I can explain this with ease, kinda. Basically, we don't know WHY, but imprinted couples share dreams. Dreams are an extension of waking life, so the assumption is that whatever you frequently face in your dreams is what you face in real life. Claire and Quil share dreams all the time, not the erotic kind, but the kind of them playing on the beach, or coloring together, or baking together or SOMETHING. The dreams are shared because your destinies are so intertwined, that you cannot dream without having that other person ever present in your dreams because your life depends on them. The upside, or even downside for you, is that fantasies can be shared so they can be put into action. Or nightmares can be seen so the other knows what their soulmate fears so they can make it better. The dreams go back and forth, whoever has the stronger emotion in the dream is the one whose dream is shared."
Jacob was quiet for a few moments, "What am I going to do with Seth?"
Sri rolled her eyes, "I just gave you information that you desired and instead of a 'thank you' I get a 'What am I going to do with Seth?'"
"Uhh, yeah..."
"Go to him. Apologize. My poor sweetheart is probably so upset right now...Talk about what your worries are, tell him about the whole dream thing, tell him everything. Make plans for your future toge..."
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! No future! No future together! I will marry a woman and Seth will go be gay with some manwhore! I will be the first person to resist imprintation. We'll just have sex once in a while, and that will be the end of it. The. End."
Sri scoffed, "Dream that, so he can see. Trust me, it won't happen. You'll be together until the day you die."
Jacob rolled his eyes at her remark, "Sure Sri, believe what you want."
"Just remember to come down here for your first date together!"
Jacob stood up to leave, "Why?"
"So you don't say anything stupid." Sri giggled and pushed Jacob out the door.
Jacob jumped on his motorcycle and started riding down back to La Push, trying to formulate what he was going to say to Seth in his mind. He didn't realize that Seth was trying to come up with what to say to Jacob too, back at Sam and Leah's house.
Squeeeeeeeeee! =] Rani here, and she hopes this cleared up some questions...sorry there was no homo hotness in this chapter...(:P) There was no Seth either...again sorry for the bluntness of the answers to your questions...haha, but yeah, Jacob is STILL an asshole after this, it'll take some time before he stops. Yeahhhh, Leah and Ryan are lesbians, GASP! I think we all saw this coming...haha. Ummm, yeah Sri is MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE. She's based off of someone I know, so her personality is not unique at all. Umm, obviously my opinions are voiced here about dreams and homosexuality and all that jazz...Um, scha I think that's it...:D so I hope you enjoyed this chapter of IAFF.
Much love to you all!!!!
-Rani Hindustani
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